Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project

08/30/2021

We have officially launched! Check out our newly revamped program and website!

LGBTQ+ affirming athletic policies can make a difference in students’ lives. When LGBTQ+ students are able to play sports and are accepted as classmates, teammates, and competitors, they gain access to the same physical, social, and emotional benefits extended to all who participate in sports.

03/04/2020

Nominate an outstanding Physical Education teacher, coach, administrator who has been impactful to Making your school inclusive!

GSAs who have advocated for LGBTQ inclusion in sports and Physical Education classes should be nominated and recognized for their outstanding work!

Nominations are open through March 13th

It’s been such a challenging few years for so many people in our country, with a seemingly endless stream of bad news at the federal level impacting people of color, immigrants, people of different faiths, and le***an, gay, bisexual and, especially, transgender people.

03/04/2020

At a moment in which transgender youth are under attack like never before in Alabama and nationwide, we must all stand together to defeat these harmful, discriminatory bills:

“The bill we see here in Alabama is a very dangerous and cruel effort to bar transgender children from some important aspects of school life." —GLSEN's Executive Director, Eliza Byard

HEFLIN, Ala. -- Nationwide controversy is brewing as states consider banning transgender athletes from sports teams that they identify with. The new legislation will force transgender athletes to compete under their gender assigned at birth if it passes. Alabama is currently pushing for the tran ...

02/26/2020

“GLSEN National Student Council member JP Grant advocates for other trans athletes by working to help educate people through media. For Grant, it means putting human faces to the issue, showing people that denying kids the option to compete is not just unfair, but inhumane.

“Do people realize the pain and suffering that people really have to go through just to do what they do every day?” he wonders. “Getting on a team as a man, with all cis men as football player—that’s intimidating. I don’t know if people realize that.”

"Media only pays attention to trans athletes when they're winning.”

01/05/2020

We are excited to share that GLSEN's Changing the Game Program is getting revamped! We will be relaunching in Spring 2020. If you have any questions, please contact a.t. furuya (GLSEN Youth Programs Manager) [email protected]

08/14/2018

Hey all, help GSA Network & GLSEN get important info about LGBTQ inclusive curriculum & classrooms into SXSW Edu by voting below!

How can K-12 schools & educators amplify the experiences of LGBTQ+ students? What are strategies for taking an intersectional approach to this work? National organizations GSA Network & GLSEN will share best practices for adults in schools & share successful models of how educators have collaborated...

06/09/2015

Congrats to Changing the Game contributor Jeff Sheng on the release of his photo book, FEARLESS, about young LGBT athletes!

Over the last 13 years photographer Jeff Sheng has captured the portraits of over 200 LGBT high school and college athletes. He now shares his life's work in a powerful new book, 'FEARLESS: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes'

05/04/2015

Happy National Physical Education and Sport Week! What are you doing to ?

Each year SHAPE America develops special integrated activities for teachers and their students to do during National Physical Education and Sport Week, May 1-7.

03/13/2015

Change the game, change the world! The UK's Clare Balding is not simply a gifted sports broadcaster, she's also a fierce LGBTQ rights and gender equality advocate.

Sports presenter Clare Balding is part of a drive to encourage more young women to consider careers in sports.

03/13/2015

We have something in our eye... Must be sweat!

The veteran umpire's coming out story has inspired many. For him, "it's been a freeing feeling."

03/12/2015

H/T The Gay, Le***an & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) "ICYMI: Victory in South Dakota! Lawmakers rejected a bill that would have banned transgender student athletes from joining sports teams that align with their gender identity."

A Senate committee has defeated a proposal that would void a High School Activities Association policy on transgender student participation in sports.

03/12/2015

This is how you change the game!

The New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Rays and San Francisco Giants all want the Supreme Court to make gay marriage legal.